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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.

Henrik Ibsen

Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Lying Myself Raise Revolution Truth
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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General Nature Possession Power Sea
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Act Courage Known Possible Release
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World

Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.

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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.

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